Jonathan Lang writes:
> Larry Wall wrote:
> > So far we've only allowed "is parsed" on the macro itself, not on
> > individual arguments. Still, that's an interesting idea.
>
> Forgive me if this has already been addressed, but this could have some
> useful applications:
>
> So far, everything I
Larry Wall writes:
> And nested modifiers are still quite illegal in Standard Perl 6.
Right.
Anybody else get the feeling we should write that down somewhere, so we
don't have to have this conversation again in a few months?
Smylers
Piers Cawley writes:
> Stéphane Payrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > s/// in string context should return the string after substituion.
>
> Surely it should return the string after substitution, but with an
> appropriate 'but true' or 'but false' property depending on whether
> anything wa
Larry Wall writes:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:08:49AM +1100, Damian Conway wrote:
>
> : Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> :
> : >return if $a { $a }
> :
> : Means:
> :
> :if ($a) { return $a } else { return undef }
>
> No, it's a syntax error. You must write
>
> return do { if $a { $a
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:49:21PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> Sorry, I wasn't being very clear. It wouldn't be logically attached to
> the outside of the for, but to the inside of the "confer", or whatever:
>
> @foo = gather {
> for @a -> $x { pick $x if mumble($x) }
> DEFAULT { @
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:23:30PM +, Smylers wrote:
> This, however, is irritating:
>
> my @new = map { s:e/$pattern/$replacement/; $_ } @old;
>
> I forget the C<; $_> far more often than I like to admit and end up with
> an array of integers instead of modified strings.
That one gets m
Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Larry Wall writes:
>
>> And nested modifiers are still quite illegal in Standard Perl 6.
>
> Right.
>
> Anybody else get the feeling we should write that down somewhere, so we
> don't have to have this conversation again in a few months?
It'll be in the summa
On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 12:28 PM, Smylers wrote:
Larry Wall writes:
: Michael Lazzaro wrote:
:
: >return if $a { $a }
No, it's a syntax error. You must write
Excellent!
I too was quietly hoping someone would say that. These hurt my
admittedly ever-shrinking brain:
retur
On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 12:15 PM, Luke Palmer wrote:
Oh, and if you really want to do that return thing without using a
C, you can just:
sub blah {
return $a || goto CONT;
CONT:
...
}
I don't see what's wrong with that. :-p
Umm... refresh my/our memory. Did we
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:23:34AM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
:
: On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 12:15 PM, Luke Palmer wrote:
: >Oh, and if you really want to do that return thing without using a
: >C, you can just:
: >
: >sub blah {
: >return $a || goto CONT;
: >CONT:
: >
"Larry Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also, since multi is orthogonal to naming ...
So I'm wondering what the correct syntax is to grab a reference to a group
of multi-somethings. Example:
multi sub foo(Int $a:) {...};
multi sub foo(String $a:) {...};
my $ref = multi &foo;
$ref("hello"); #
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Dave Whipp wrote:
> "Larry Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Also, since multi is orthogonal to naming ...
>
> So I'm wondering what the correct syntax is to grab a reference to a group
> of multi-somethings.
While Larry will probably weigh in on this, I'd rather you not a
Smylers writes:
> Piers Cawley writes:
>
> > Stèphane Payrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > s/// in string context should return the string after substituion.
> >
> > Surely it should return the string after substitution, but with an
> > appropriate 'but true' or 'but false' property de
Jonathan Scott Duff writes:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:49:21PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> > Sorry, I wasn't being very clear. It wouldn't be logically attached to
> > the outside of the for, but to the inside of the "confer", or whatever:
> >
> > @foo = gather {
> > for @a -> $x { pick
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